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There’s more to Korean Music than K-Pop
By Mark Swed [LA Times] June-2025
“A dashing performance”
Korean Composers kick off LA Phil’s Seoul Festival
By Josef Woodard [San Francisco Classical Voice] June-2025
“Soloist HieYon Choi flung into action from the outset. Her fervent washes of sound at the keyboard were energized by a percussion-charged background.”
[CD] Gramophone Collector | Beethoven Piano Sonatas
By Jed Distler [Gramophone UK] August-2025
[CD] This Particular Album: Pianist HieYon Choi’s Beethoven Complete IV – Nos. 11, 17, 18, 22
By Yong-Won Sung [Review Monthly] June-2025
[CD] Hieyon Choi’s Beethoven Sonata Cycle
By Jed Distler [Classics Today] June-2025
[CD] This Particular Album: Pianist HieYon Choi’s Beethoven Complete III – Nos. 7, 9, 10
By Yong-Won Sung [Monthly Review] June-2025
[CD] This Particular Album: Pianist HieYon Choi’s Beethoven Complete II – Nos. 4, 29
By Yong-Won Sung [Monthly Review] May-2025
[CD] This Particular Album: Pianist HieYon Choi’s Beethoven Complete I
By Yong-Won Sung [Monthly Review] April-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi, Holding All Thirty-Two Beethoven Sonatas in Both Hands
[Auditorium Monthly] April-2025
Beethoven Complete Recording in 10 Years, Pianist HieYon Choi…”Loved Beethoven madly”
[Seoul Shinmun] Apr-9-2025
“Beethoven’s Sonatas Are a Process of Problem-Solving… Genius and Thrilling”
[Dong-A Daily] Apr-9-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi: “Beethoven Sends a Message of Unity to a Polarized World”
[NoCut News] Apr-9-2025
HieYon Choi: “Beethoven, a Symbol of Unity and Harmony, Is the Music We Need to Listen to Now”
[Seoul Economic Daily] Apr-6-2025
A Beethoven Album 10 Years in the Making—Made Possible by Madly Love
[Korea Economic Daily] Apr-6-2025
[The Hankyoreh] Apr-6-2025
Why It Took HieYon Choi 10 Years to Record the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas
[Kukmin Ilbo] Apr-6-2025
Nine Years of Dedication to Recording the Sonatas—HieYon Choi to Launch a Beethoven Recital
[Job Post] Apr-6-2025
[Bridge Economy] Apr-5-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi: “With Beethoven Sonatas, Sending a Message of Unity to a Divided World”
[Munhwa Ilbo] Apr-4-2025
HieYon Choi: “Beethoven’s Music Carries a Message of Harmony”
[Asia Today] Apr-4-2025
HieYon Choi: “My Love for Beethoven Has Grown Even Deeper Than 10 Years Ago”
[E-Daily] Apr-4-2025
Recording for 10 years, Beethoven which “Comforted My Mother”
[Chosun Daily] Apr-4-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi: “Beethoven’s Problem-Solving Journey Is More Dramatic Than Any Movie”
[Asia Economy] Apr-3-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi: “Beethoven, the Genius Who Poses Problems and Resolves Them Brilliantly”
[Newsis] Apr-3-2025
HieYon Choi: “Madly in Love With Beethoven—Now an Album of All 32 Sonatas”
[Korea Times] Apr-3-2025
“Madly in Love With Beethoven—The Recording Alone Took 10 Years”
[Maeil Business] Apr-3-2025
[Yeonhap News] Apr-3-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi Releases TESTAMENT, a 10-Year Journey
[Sisa Magazine] Mar-28-2025
[CNB Journal] Mar-28-2025
HieYon Choi Completes the Full Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle—The Final Chapter of a 10-Year Epic
[Sports Donga] Mar-28-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi Releases Her Complete Beethoven Sonatas Album Today
[KBS News] Mar-28-2025
HieYon Choi Releases Complete Beethoven Sonata Album… Recital to Follow in April
[New Daily] Mar-28-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi, Beethoven Complete Release Recital
[Daegu Daily] Mar-21-2025
Pianist HieYon Choi in Daegu Recital, Release of Beethoven Complete Album
[Daegu MBC News] Mar-22-2025
By Sarah Achenbach [Peabody Magazine] Spring 2024
HieYon Choi Piano Recital – Bach Goldberg Variations
By Yong-Won Sung [Review Monthly] Dec-2023
The Last Special Concert of Seoul Arts Center, ‘HieYon Choi Piano Recital’ on the 27th
By Seong-A Shin [New Daily] Dec-14-2023
Seoul Arts Center 30th Anniversary Special Concert – Solo Recital by HieYon Choi
By Hee-Sun Kim [Monthly Music Journal] Dec-2023
The closing stage of the series will be a solo recital by HieYon Choi, one of the leading pianists of her generation. The program features Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”.
When asked why she chose this beloved masterpiece—one of Bach’s greatest works—she replied, “Whether by coincidence or inevitability, this piece has always been by my side whenever my life entered a period of significant change.”
CONCERT BY PIANIST HIE YON CHOI | Beethoven’s sonatas, rhythmic and full of energy
Christopher Keller [Nordwest Zeitung] July-2022
Pianist HieYon Choi, who pursues the essence of music.
By Janghyun Ryu [Arte News] Sep-01-2022
Pianists Paul Lewis and HieYon Choi on stage at Kumho Art Hall
By Jaehyun Cho [News-1] Sep-01-2022
Pastoral, Passionate | New Year’s Concert 2022 of The House Concert: HieYon Choi (Piano)
By Jin-Suk Kim [Monthly Music Journal] Feb- 2022
Pianist HieYon Choi “Beethoven, the fate and the blessing, the great lesson”
By Sung-Ah Shin [New Daily] Nov-05-2021
Sonata Release by HieYon Choi “Playing Beethoven cantabile”
By Soo-Hyun Oh [Daily Economics] Nov-03-2021
Pianist HieYon Choi ‘Beethoven, the load, turned to a blessing
By Joo-Hee Song [Seoul Economy] Nov-03-2021
Beethoven Specialist HieYon Choi returned to the stage in 3 years
By Hyun-Woo Oh [Hankyung] Nov-04-2021
HieYon Choi “Complete recording of Beethoven Sonata, repaying favor to korean audience”
By Jong-Sung Yoon [E Daily] Nov-03-2021
Pianist HieYon Choi, New Beethoven Album in 3 years… Solo Recital in November
By Jae-Hoon Lee [Newsis] Oct-19-2021
‘Beethoven Specialist’ HieYon Choi, not the ‘power’ but …
By So-Hee Kim [E Today] Nov-07-2021
[Cover Story] Freedom in the stillness – Pianist HieYon Choi
By Hee-Sun Kim [Monthly Music Journal] Nov-2021
The Korean impressed at the piano _Pianist HieYon Choi in the Church Holtrop on Friday
By Jan Michael Heimann [Ostfriesischen Nachrichten] Juli-15-2019
“That’s among the absolute best in the world”
[CD] Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 18, 26, 27, 30 – HieYon Choi
By Carsten Dürrer [PIANO NEWS] Vol.03/2019
[CD]Beethoven Sonatas with a Deeper Touch of Vienna
Pianist HieYon Choi’s New Album | Performed on ‘Boesendorfer’ born in 1828…Deep and Elegant Sound | Contrast to Brilliant Tone Color of ‘Steinway’
By Yoon-Jong Yoo [DONG-A DAILY] Jan-18-2019
Beethoven Specialist HieYon Choi „it feels like a married couple to study Beethoven for long time“
By YoonSuk Na [Seoul Economist] Jan-8-2019
Beethoven, Next to Him, HieYon Choi
By Suh-Hyun Hur [Monthly Pianoforte] Jan-2019
Musical Legacy of Noble Spirit
By JiYeon Kook [Monthly Auditorium] Jan-2019
Pianist Hie-Yon Choi, Her New Beethoven Sonata Album Released by DECCA
By SooJung Lim [YeonHap Daily] Dec-21-2018
French Impressionism vs Korean Impressionism Presented by Pianist Hie-Yon Choi
By DeungYong Jung [AJU Economist] Oct-18-2017
Over Beethoven Now to Debussy, an Exploring Journey on Piano
By JiHyun In [Munwha Daily] 18-Sep-2017
“Hommage a Baroque…” HieYon Choi in Kumho Art Hall
By Jae-Hoon Lee [Newsis] 14-Sep-2017
Beethoven captivated in Bagband
By Karen Hochmuth [Ostfriesische Nachrichten], Juli-16-2017
“The Korean pianist Hie-Yon Choi continued her piano sonata cycle in the Musikalischen Sommer festival. Her appearance was the „Hammer“ (‘awesome’ in German slang) – in the true sense of the word itself.”
Siblings on stage; Conductor Hee-Chuhn Choi – Pianist Hie-Yon Choi
By Soo-Jung Lim [Yeonhap News] May-13-2017
By Ina Wagner [Emder Zeitung] July-11-2016
“The pianist faced (the work) with the technical & interpretational capacities which seemed to be almost limitless. Yet her playing remained totally concentrated and sure even in the rapid moving passages: the waterfall-like passages, the meditative moods, the pearly runs, the refined nuances, the associations. All these were well thought out and directed to captivate the moments “
Korean Hie-Yon Choi Ensures Enthusiasm
By Birgit Brodisch [Anzeige für Harlingerland] Aug-10-2015
“The star of the evening was the Korean pianist Hie-Yon Choi […] Through whole sonatas the thread pulled the extreme dynamics and very strong accents where the audience could not breath and the intensity never let go.”
As if Beethoven Himself Sitting at the Piano
By Ina Wagner [Emder Zeitung] Aug-13-2015
“Eyes closed; you would believe that the honorable composer himself would have sat at the piano. Hie-Yon Choi is passionate in dealing with the interpretation of these sonatas – so passionate that you would have to be afraid for the instrument. With extraordinary power and speed this Korean governs the score – and yet succeeds to let it fulfilled with compassion, intimacy and pure joy. She performs with energetic touch and fiercely uses all what is possible on this instrument. […] Hie-Yon Choi is an extraordinary artist with the same extraordinary capacity in her solemn and reserved way.”
A Wild Fury over All Keys | Spectacular Experience of Highest Art of Piano
By Roland Moll [Ostfriesischer Kurier] Aug-13-2015
“As a few dramatic accords of the roaring fortissimo thunder in the church, the whole concentration of audience was focused on the artist and the music. It was especially the violent dynamic outbreak up to the limit of the playable, the energy which was carried to the audience and the performance in supple balance with vigorous contrasts of Hie-Yon Choi, which gave the audience a once-only experience […] Grandiose. The “Vivacissimamente”, a tempo demanded by the composer Beethoven in the E flat Major Sonata op. 81a directed the musical happiness, racing, to the climax. Could not be any faster. Could not be any better.”
Pianist HieYon Choi Performs the Greatness of Music Illuminating Even in the War
[Medical World News] Jun-22-2015
Pianist Choi Hie-Yon: ‚Beethoven is unconquerable ‘
[Korea.net] Jun-05-2014
Yeol-Eum Son & Vardi / HieYon Choi & Tsuyoshi; Essence of ‘Viennese School’
By Jae-Hoon Lee [Joong-Ang Daily] Mar-04-2014
The Pianist Fascinated the Audience in Leer
[General Anzeiger] Juli-18-2013
[Cover Story] Musical Siblings Hie-Yon Choi & Hee-Chuhn Choi
By Jang-Jik Lee [Monthly Auditorium] March 2013
3 Musicians Contaminated by ‘Beethoven Virus’
Hie-Yon Choi, SNU professor, Soovin Kim, Young Song, Beethoven Trio at Kumho Art Hall
By Bora Kim [Korea Economist] Oct-3-2012
Beethoven, My Love & My Hatred, Launching Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle
By SungHyun Kim [Chosun Daily] Oct-4-2012
[Cover Story] HieYon Choi on the stage of Classic Star Series at IBK Chamber Opening Festival
By Ji-Youn Kook [Monthly The Piano] Nov-2011
Pianist HieYon Choi “Beethoven, Even 100% Understanding is Not Enough”
By Mihwan Oh [Korea Times] Nov-4-2005
Kumho Art Hall, Piano HieYon Choi Beethoven Recital
[Dong-A Daily] Mar-3-2003
„Cannot Breathe without Music “, Nanpa Music Award Winner, HieYon Choi
By Sukyung Kim [Dong-A Daily] Sep-12-2002
Beethoven Sonata Cycle by Hie-Yon Choi
Adamant rhythm with intensity, explosive and passionate touch
By Sang-Woo Han [Monthly Joy Classic] May-2002
“Being away from the secular interests, concentrated in music, Hie-Yon possesses rigorous craftsmanship to offer a stage of the highest quality… Her pure approach towards music is the strongest power to win over the audience… Her approach to Beethoven is quite reckless”
‘A Poet of Music Who Crafts Poetry through Sound
By Bin-Ah Koo [Monthly Auditorium] Dec-2000
“Last January, when HieYon Choi appeared with Bach-only in her debut recital, the audience at the Kumho Gallery was full of curiosity ‘how good’ she was. People wanted to confirm the performance of the new youngest piano faculty at Seoul National University who drew whole attention from us and HieYon Choi presented impeccable Bach which compassed whole program in a big unity. Afterwards she continued impressing us through concerts at Tong-Yeong International Festival, with Pucheon and Changwon Philharmonic. Positive reviews raised more curiosities and the menu of her second recital on the 6th of November was Schubert and Chopin. Was it for Schubert? The stage was strangely dark. There was hardly a difference regard lighting between the audience and the stage. Listening Schubert in a dark hall, in almost pessimistic mood was quite new experience in Korea, where the radiant light for stage and pitch-dark audience is usual setting”
Extraordinary capacity and freshness came up to our expectation
By Jae-Eun Kim [Monthly Pianoforte] Dec-2000
“The Korean “Clara Haskil”, HieYon Choi held the breath of the audience with her sincere attitude towards music and threw them into the sea of lyricism and romanticism with her delicate touch. Our true hope is that the new star like HieYon Choi remain fresh, unchanged and continue to surprise us.”
By Sang-Woo Han [Monthly Eumak Chunchu] Dec-2000
“Her transcendent command of the instrument reached its pinnacle in her performance of Chopin Etudes. Expressing characters of each 12 etudes were sovereign but also the unique rhythmic sense in No. 3, the scherzo nuance in No. 5 and the delicious expression of No. 9 were a display of her maturity in technique. Her dramatic drive through the last three numbers and her enthusiasm with extraordinary energy overwhelmed the whole audience”
HieYon Choi performs Clara Schumann Piano Concerto
[Dong-A Daily] Sep-21-2000
Pianist HieYon Choi – Musical depth grounded in clear interpretation and masterful technique.
By Uzong Choe [Monthly Eumak Chunchu] Feb-2000
“It is rare to experience a performance which makes us realize the fact that the dynamics and the colors are the keys for the musical structure. This performance was a harmony of clear interpretation and mature technique. I was confirmed that the ‘musical sensation’ is only possible on this premise.”
How Wonderful to Have Such a Bach-Performer
By Jae-Jun Ryu [Korea Times] Jan-2000
HieYon Choi, First Returning Piano Recital
By Mihwan Oh [Korea Times] Jan-13-2000
It’s Hie-Yon Choi’s third return to the Musikalischer Sommer
By Laura Bode [Emder Zeitung] July-21-2010
“She appears worldwide as a concert pianist and at the same time she is a professor at Seoul National University -For Hie-Yon Choi it is the simple consequence out of one thing above all: the love of music. “Music is my life”, she says and she means it seriously……”
“Schubert’s “3 Stücke für Klavier D946”
By Werner Jürgens [Ostfriesischer Nachrichten] July-20-2010
“It is truly not an easy task to find the clear lines at all times under the chaos, the mirror-reflection of feelings, in this composition. Hie-Yon Choi proves herself absolutely washing away any concern of this huge challenge. Especially remarkable was her capacity in the second piece E flat Major- Allegretto”
Masterful Concert in Sympathetic Bagband
By Ina Wagner [Emder Zeitung] July-20-2010
“Hie-Yon Choi played „ 3 Stücke für Klavier D946“ and gave a soul to three musical treasures with emotional participation & intimacy. The audience of course could sense this special connection – thus there was a very long & enthusiastic applause for the interpretation of the special class.”
Shiny Opening of Musiksommer in Norden
By Roland Moll [Ostfriesischer Kurier] July-19-2010
“With outstanding quality the Korean pianist Hie-Yon Choi presented Beethoven‘s genius piano sonata No. 23, known as „Appassionata“, the passionate. Passionately, right with excessive power & sensitive empathy the artist fascinated the audience. Full-chords in the conflict zone from fortissimo & piano, prominent through the outstanding agogics, the loud passage accelerated, slowing down quietly in contrast, the interpretation was in a very high level. Eruptive drama in struggle & soft, romantic state became musical highlight.”
Wild Cliffs and Lovely Valleys
By Horst Hollmann [Nordwest Zeitung] July-27-2009
“Her playing was breathtakingly virtuoso but also looking into the inner world, formal in control but also free in shaping. Never she approached naively swaggering the variations on B-A-C-H & on the Basso Continuo of the choral cantata „Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen. Zagen“ (BWV12) which were originated from roaring pipe-organ. She savored in total pleasure the enormous rise to the peaks which shines in the sunlight, then leads to outshining Choral-Cantus-Firmus „Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan“. Hie-Yon Choi built however a solid bridge between all these steep walls & gorges, settled the valleys & plateaus. Right there between the mounted-up blocks the almost cracking inner intensity grew. Here took her unnoticeable capacity effect, connecting controlled tempo-freedom with strict tempo, to play out the lyricism broadly, letting the lines meshing each other. Only very few sound-ball were made thick with the organ-like pedaling & let the profile disappear. When it was proper, as like in the Bach-Choralprelude „Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme“ as an encore, she savored cautious romanticizing.”
Radiant Happiness after Perfect Presentation
Pianist Hie-Yon Choi enthralled on Friday in Remels
By Roland Moll [Ostfriesen-Zeitung] July-27-2009
“With frenetic applause, bravo-calls & excited trample the 250 concert-visitors on Friday in St.-Martins-Kirche in Remels thanked the Korean pianist Hie-Yon Choi for her magnificent capacity… One should treat the superlative forms very meticulous & cautiously, however in this case you may attest the world-class capacity. Already from the beginning of the concert she made the audience attentive with the „Variations on B.A.C.H“ & fascinated them with sparkling performance of full power & beautiful dynamic contrast. The magical, almost elegiac parts were contrasted with the thundering fortissimo in orchestral sense which seemed to quake the church walls. Hie-Yon Choi convinced through the highest virtuosity in the best sense & thus complied fully & totally the Liszt‘s image & gave with her boldness a glamour of a unique improvisation to the piece”
By Ina Wagner [Emder Zeitung] July-27-2009
“The musician filled her performance … with such emotional depth & inner movements that there was endless ecstasy. And when she gave as an encore Bach’s „Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme“ , the universe seemed literally to lie at the feet of the elegant pianist.”
Harmony, Consideration and Sacrifice in Tong-Yeong
By Kyung-Chan Hong [Seoul Culture Today] Apr-02-2009
“Fantastic performance filled with harmonization and consideration of both Thomas Zehetmair, conductor of Northern Sinfonia and HieYon Choi, the artist-in-residence […] the natural communication between two was like flowing water and absorbed the audience, even their breathing sounds”
HieYon Choi, Woman of Tong-Yeong Next Month as the Artist-in-Residence at Tong-Yeong International Music Festival
By Sung-Hyun Kim [Chosun Daily] Feb-11-2009
This Fall, Brahms is in Her Hands…
By Sung-Hyun Kim [Chosun Daily] Oct-25-2007
Petitessen and Reger’s Opus Magnum
Powerful Virtuosity
By Andrea Proelss [Der Neue Tag] Oberpfalz, Aug-15-2007
„Her strong suit lies no doubt in the virtuose passages which she mastered with impressive technique powerful and leap-sure, but also with insight for the inner thematic structure. She kept overview also in the nine-minute-long double fugue where she took time over and over for filigree and clean-playing for contrapuntal figures, dynamically refined shadowing, before she towered the pathos with thick final chords using the last energy reserves. Long lasting applause from enthralled audience.”
Royal Concertgebow Orchestra Quartet, Hie-Yon Choi & Young-Shin Kim
Hie-Yon Choi, radiating her refined flash
By Wan-Gyu Chung [Monthly International Piano Korea] April-2007
“The Highlight of the concert was the Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 where Pianist Hie-Yon Choi attuned with the Quartet embroidering with her clean and refined tone. The transparent-colorful sound of the piano and the delicate-elegant sound of the quartet were splendidly harmonized and produced gorgeous music. Hie-Yon Choi played the leading role in empowering the quintet with the spirit of grandeur”
A Pianist of Talent, Fantasy and Guts, now on Korea-tour
By Tae-Hyung Ryu [Weekly Donga] Apr-11-2006
Pianist HieYon Choi on Concert Tour
By Mihwan Oh [Korea Times] Apr-8-2006
Guest conductor, soloist, local composition make excellent music
By Peter Jacobi [Herald Times] Bloomington, Nov-21-1997
“Choi proved herself to be an accomplished pianist with a sensitive rhythmic sense, with power in her chordal work, with mastery of runs and trills and such, and with an understanding of Beethoven’s musical style. “
Examination in marks of Mozart
Festival Montreux-Vevey with Concours Clara Haskil
By Hans-Klaus Jungenheinrich [Frankfurter Rundschau] Sep-3-1997
“..The realization of Mozart A Major Concerto KV 488 by Hie-Yon Choi: a high-spirited, full of sentiment, eloquent up to every detail and precisely formulated interpretation, in the sovereign and at the same time reserved manner (as if perceived the spirituality of young Clara Haskil itself), besides without any perfectionistic attitude…”
By Aime Corbaz [Le Matin] Sep-1-1997
“Hie-Yon Choi was full of freshness and spontaneity who incidentally drew us to the spirit of Clara Haskil, who gave so much of the youthfulness and the depth into her playing.”
[Neue Rheinische Zeitung] Oct-15-1996
“…With charm and deep meaning Hie-Yon Choi interpreted also the Beethoven Sonata Op. 101 in A Major. The mysterious and unreal Adagio movement – ” slowly and with longing” written by Beethoven – was most of all convincing. Jovial and exuberantly presented the Korean also the fast final movement….The climax was Skriabin’s 5th Sonata. Hie-Yon Choi entered into another world as she created a magical tone color on the piano.”
Piano Recital by Hie-Yon Choi at Bourglinster Castle
By Norry Goedert [Luxemburger Wort] Oct-24-1996
“After the break was the monumental b-minor Sonata by Liszt. Hie-Yon Choi broached dramatic peaks and unleashed impetuous storms with her superb phrasing and unfailing technique”
By Daniela Goebel [Darmstädter Echo] Jan-30-1995
“It was overwhelming how this Korean held the audience under her spell with her maturity and diversity of interpretation. Hie-Yon Choi possesses faultless technique, sparking ease and fascinating virtuosity”
14th International Piano Competitio
By M.-H.C. [Liberte de l’est] Epinal, Mar-29-1993
“Hie-Yon Choi, the south Korean, possessed a temperament of fire. As if the rouge of her dress set fire on her fingers, we were at the present of fiery interpretation, full of power and character, which entirely seduced the audience”
2 Pianists share 2nd at Kapell
By Joseph McLellan [The Washington Post] July-20-1992
“The $5,000 third prize was won by Hie-Yon Choi, a 24-year-old Korean. The decision, greeted by cries of “No!” “Shame!” and “Terrible!” by a near-capacity audience in the Concert Hall….
In some ways, Choi, who opened the evening with a fluent, precise and graceful performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, gave the evening’s most impressive — or its least unsatisfying — performance. She did not reach all the music’s depths, but a major artist can work for a whole lifetime without managing that.”
Kapell Finalists’ Choice Music
By Kate Rivers [The Washington Post] July-18-1992
“A brisk reading of Beethoven’s B-Flat Sonata, Op. 22, and Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit” showed Choi capable of flexible, supple playing. She had lovely rich tone, with some beautiful shading”
Young Talents in the Berolina Concert
By Clemens Birnbaum [Berliner Zeitung] Nov-28-1991
“Hie-Yon Choi, as a soloist, proved herself to be a virtuoso in the Liszt’s Piano Concerto E Flat Major, without having let her technique end in itself. Her somewhat harsh touch decorated itself through the precision in the ornamental figures.”
Pianist-Winner at the Hochschule
By R. L. [Berliner Morgenpost] Dec-17-1986“
“She showed the high level of empathy in the Beethoven Sonata D-Major op. 10-3, especially in the Largo movement, which was carried by the deepest resignation, and the good technical capacity in the final movement, which seemed partly somewhat motoric.”